Tim Maudlin
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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And that's what so upset him.
Right.
He's like, um, okay, so it wasn't an issue about superluminal signaling.
This also is just to emphasize.
Einstein thought if you accept what Copenhagen says, that's a threat to relativity.
He did not think it implies superluminal signaling.
That's proof that Einstein didn't think of relativity in terms of signaling.
Right.
He didn't think the essence of relativity was you can't send superluminal signals.
He couldn't have, or else he wouldn't have saw these examples he gave as worrisome for relativity.
What he's objecting to is in this fundamental picture that Bohr and Heisenberg are presenting, uh, that picture just commits you to this kind of spooky action at a distance.
The action, the change, the physical dependency of what happens over here on what happened way over there.
In the EPR argument
They only look at at perfect correlations at situations where when you're looking at the outcomes in these two distant labs, the correlations between them are perfect so that knowing the outcome in one lab allows you to predict with certainty the outcome in the other.
That's part of the criterion of reality, when you can predict with certainty and so on.
So they do use that case.
Then, having done that, you can additionally derive as a theorem that if you rule out spooky action at a distance, if you have a local theory in Einstein's sense, it must also be a deterministic theory.
So you do get conclusions about determinism, but not from assumptions about determinism.
You get conclusions about determinism from assumptions about locality.
We I've been calling these perfect correlations EPR correlations because that's they first appear in the EPR argument, and they're essential for the application of the criterion of reality that they give.
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